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单词 winnow
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winnowverb [ T ]

uk/ˈwɪn.əʊ/us/ˈwɪn.oʊ/

to blow the chaff (= the outer coverings) from grain before it can be used as food

formal to reduce a large number of people or things to a much smaller number by judging their quality:

A list of 15 applicants has been winnowed down to three.
a winnowing process

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Removing the skin or seed from fruit & vegetables

  • core
  • hull
  • pare
  • peel
  • pit
  • pitted
  • seed
  • seeded
  • shell
  • shuck
  • skinless
  • stone
  • stoned
  • top
  • top and tail idiom

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Becoming and making smaller or less

winnowverb [ T ]

us/ˈwɪn·oʊ/

to reduce a large number of people or things to a much smaller number by judging their quality:

The six architects chosen to compete for the commission were winnowed from an original list of 27.
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